tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1565531981620090589Tue, 07 Oct 2014 03:09:02 +0000freenas 8.0gptBarCampNantesIPv6SF.netamd64applicationsbetabsdcanopensshpfsensetranslatorsFreeNAS 0.7PHPbeepbsd magdocumentationeventsforumsfsckgraid5guidegzipinstallldaplighttpdlocalizationpermissionpluginspodcastqemurc.shutdownrestore toolsreviewroadmapsecurityspeakerufsutf8videovirutalizexboxzfsFreeNAS<a href="http://freenas.org">team's blog</a>http://blog.freenas.org/noreply@blogger.com (Olivier Cochard-Labbé)Blogger120125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1565531981620090589.post-7885774388233436106Tue, 09 Apr 2013 18:22:00 +00002013-04-09T20:22:10.419+02:00FreeNAS 8.3.1-RELEASE-p1 is available<p>Josh Paetzel has announced FreeNAS 8.3.1-RELEASE-p1:</p> <p>FreeNAS 8.3.1-RELEASE-p1 made it's way to SF Friday of last week. It fixes a couple of small issues and provides a few small updates.</p> <p>Serial numbers of disks are shown in the GUI.</p> <p>Fixed a bug where extending an encrypted pool with more drives could blow away the encryption key.</p> <p>Samba 3.6.13 (That seems to be missing from the rel notes, I'll investigate later)</p> <p>Downloads are here: <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.3.1/RELEASE-p1/" title="FreeNAS 8.3.1 RELEASE-p1" target="_blank">https://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.3.1/RELEASE-p1/</a></p> <p>Release notes are here: <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.3.1/RELEASE-p1/README/download" title="FreeNAS 8.3.1 RELEASE-p1 Release Notes" target="_blank">http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.3.1/RELEASE-p1/README/download</a></p>http://blog.freenas.org/2013/04/freenas-831-release-p1-is-available.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ben Milman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1565531981620090589.post-8104958021253436066Mon, 01 Apr 2013 19:01:00 +00002013-04-01T21:01:22.484+02:00Store free or die hard (drive)<p><em>This was originally posted at <a href="http://community.spiceworks.com/messages/topic/2594807" title="Spiceworks: Spotlight on IT" target="_blank">Spiceworks.com</a> as part of their Spotlight on IT series.</em></p> <p>Back in 2010, my company had a single server dedicated to each task in the office. It sounded great in concept, but we seemed to almost constantly be fighting down time from failed components or slow system speed because of the age of the equipment. While weighing the options on how to proceed with the necessary upgrades, we bit the bullet and purchased the VMware Essentials Plus bundle. It was on sale and offered us the failover and HA on the compute clusters that we needed. We did not, however, go for the full “standard” bundle, which would have given us Storage vMotion. As a small business, we must carefully balance the cost with the perks of any given package and the storage vMotion just didnt make the cut. But, by building out our storage platform using FreeNAS, we have been able to largely replace the need for that purchase.</p> <p>Our storage network is as follows:</p><ul><li>2x Dell 2950 Gen2 — 16GB Ram (boots FreeNAS from flash) </li><li>32GB SSD in first server for SSD write caching to 8x1TB external SATA 7200 RPM HDDs </li><li>6x 2TB 7200RPM SATA in RAID5 on perc6/i controller in second server </li><li>2x Cisco 2960 24-port Gbit switch </li><li>1x per server Intel Pro1000 Dual-port Gbit NIC (PCI-e add-on card) </li></ul><p>By using the Intel add-on cards purchased on the used market, we were able to gain redundancy on the network layer, using one port from the Intel and one port from the on-board Broadcom routed to each switch and using iSCSI with MPIO to gain the speed boost. By doing this, each server has two routes and two NICs per route to talk on. In the event that any switch or port fails, it has a backup port that is already transmitting.</p> <p>We have not, as of yet, made use of the HA option that FreeNAS offers. When we are in a position to purchase replacement servers for the main computer nodes, I will push the current CPU nodes down to the storage level and configure two for HA and the third for the backups. Until then, we have a single primary iSCSI LUN that boots all the servers and a second server that currently only has a NFS share on it to receive the backups.</p> <p>When trying to figure out IOPS and what kind of performance we needed out of our storage, it was not nearly as straightforward as we thought it would be. Based off our pre-VMware configuration, we estimated 400 IOPS, so on the first configuration we had 5x 2TB 7200 RPM drives in a hardware RAID5. We quickly found this to be insufficient, but it was a numbers game trying to balance the cost of drives with the performance we wanted/needed to serve our staff and our customers. The current iteration is using FreeNAS with 8x 1TB HDDs and a 32GB SSD as a “zil/log” drive. By having the SSD in the mix, we are able to cache the writes to the drives while giving instant access to the reads for the most part. Adding the SSD alone has resulted in a significant improvement in the performance of our storage platform. I couldn’t recommend anyone going without a SSD knowing how cheap they are to purchase now.</p> <p>Looking back at the notion of using a vendor-supplied solution, I compare our setup to a Dell PowerVault iSCSI SAN because it is as close as I can get to a comparable system. The Dell costs $5,379 according to their website. Below is a breakdown of where our money was spent on our setup.</p> <ul><li>Cisco sSwitches: $1,100 per </li><li>Dell 2950 Gen2 — repurposed (free for this project) </li><li>1TB HDDs — $60 per (eight total) </li><li>32 GB SSD — repurposed after a failed desktop SSD upgrade project (that’s another story…) </li><li>2TB HDD's — $150 per (six total) </li><li>5x Intel pro1000 NIC — $35 per</li><li>SGI/Rackable SE3016 — $150</li></ul><strong>Total cost: $3,755</strong> <p>So for roughly $1,600 less than the cost of one piece of hardware without any drives, we were able to purchase two switches, 14 HDDs, and five dual-port gigabit NICs. We got lucky in that we had recently knocked out the last of the remaining physical servers and were able to repurpose them for use in the storage platform, which cut a bit from the cost of the project but not as much as you might expect.</p> <p>At this time, I am able to find SuperMirco servers for around $300 with 2x quad core 2.6 Xeons, 16GB ram, and a 2U case with six drive bays. Assuming you don’t have any spare servers, add another $600 to your price and you have a total for your setup.</p> <p>One note for those thinking of doing FreeNAS with ZFS: Make sure you have enough RAM. FreeNAS has retailed recommendations on their Wiki and it is not something I suggest you ignore. (Trust me, I tried on my home rig before loading it at the office.)</p> <p>Assuming you were to spend the money to populate it with 12 (out of 24 bays) 2TB drives specified in their web page, you would have to shell out $419 per drive to the tune of $5,028 for a total of 24TB total storage. Compare this price to the NewEgg price of $109.99 or $1,319.88 total, and you have a very significant price savings without a hit on realistic performance especially if you utilize a small SSD as a zil drive. If you find you still want a bit more, you can always add in a larger SSD as a read cache, at which point your drives would be largely independent from your noticed performance.</p> <p>At this point you can truly customize your solution using FreeNAS (or similar products) and get exactly what you need out of your box without having any of the extra “fluff” that comes with vendor-provided solutions and results in a higher cost for what could very well turn out to be an inferior product. I have played with a number of the solutions offered by the open-source community and I prefer FreeNAS (as you might have guessed) because of the ease of setup and the overall interface. It is simple and easy to understand.</p> <p>For those of you out there that are well versed in BSD, you will note that by using a wrapped product, you are losing out on the system updates until FreeNAS pulls them into their product but in the year and a half that we have been using open source solutions, I have used both direct and packaged solutions and have not come across one that I would recommend like I do FreeNAS.</p> <p>As you look out on the landscape of open source VS closed-source and new VS used, please remember that it takes millions upon millions of dollars to market something coming from one of the top vendors and that cost will always be wrapped back into their products. If Google can use consumer grade equipment in their datacenters to replace enterprise grade equipment and use that money to build in redundant circuits, why cant we? I personally would rather have three redundant servers that die once a year than one server that dies once every two years that takes my entire business to its knees. In this day of technology, we simply cant afford to be down and our customers cant afford it either. This fact does not, however, mean that we have to shell out $50,000 to build out a cluster of three servers with redundant datastores, redundant switches, and a bunch of features we don’t want or need just to tell management that we bought stuff with a warranty.</p> <p>In small business, we are the first and last stop on the blame train, so why not take the time to learn some new tech and put those new skills to work at your company making it a more redundant environment?</p> <p>Rob Fauls<br />IT Director<br />Southern Freight, Inc.</p>http://blog.freenas.org/2013/04/store-free-or-die-hard-drive.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ben Milman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1565531981620090589.post-6424187495412828076Wed, 20 Mar 2013 19:02:00 +00002013-03-20T20:02:21.945+01:00FreeNAS 8.3.1 is Released!<p>The FreeNAS development team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of FreeNAS 8.3.1-RELEASE.</p> <p>Images and plugins can be downloaded from the following site: <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.3.1/RELEASE/" title="FreeNAS 8.3.1-RELEASE">http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.3.1/RELEASE/</a></p> <p>FreeNAS 8.3.1 is based on FreeBSD 8.3 with version 28 of the ZFS filesystem, and features volume based encryption for ZFS.</p> <p>There have been no major changes between 8.3.1-RC1 and RELEASE, mostly bugfixes and minor usability improvements to the GUI. See the release notes for a complete list: <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.3.1/RELEASE/README/download" title="FreeNAS 8.3.1 Release Notes">http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.3.1/RELEASE/README/download</a></p> <p>Please familiarize yourself extensively with the encryption features of FreeNAS before using them. Doing the wrong thing can end up in a state where the volume is hidden behind very difficult to break AES 256 encryption.</p> <p><a href="http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/Volumes#ZFS_Encryption" title="FreeNAS Volume Encryption">http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/Volumes#ZFS_Encryption</a></p> <p>Many modern CPUs feature hardware support for encryption. If hardware support is available FreeNAS will use it. In these cases the overhead of encryption will be negligible. For systems without hardware encryption acceleration the performance impact will vary based on the number of disks being used in the encrypted volume.</p>http://blog.freenas.org/2013/03/freenas-831-is-released.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ben Milman)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1565531981620090589.post-1491654889050674930Tue, 26 Feb 2013 19:26:00 +00002013-02-26T20:26:25.181+01:00FreeNAS 8.3.1-RC1 is Available<p>The FreeNAS development team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of FreeNAS 8.3.1-RC1.</p> <p>Images and plugins can be downloaded from the following site:</p> <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.3.1/RC1/" title ="FreeNAS 8.3.1 RC1" target="_blank">http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.3.1/RC1/</a> <p>This is the first and only release candidate planned for the final version of FreeNAS 8.3.1-RELEASE.</p> <p>FreeNAS 8.3.1 is based on FreeBSD 8.3 with version 28 of the ZFS filesystem, and features volume based encryption for ZFS volumes.</p> <p>There have been no major changes between 8.3.1-BETA3 and RC1, mostly bugfixes and minor usability improvements to the GUI. See the <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.3.1/RC1/README/download" target="_blank" title="FreeNAS 8.3.1-RC1 Release Notes">release notes</a> for a complete list.</p>http://blog.freenas.org/2013/02/freenas-831-rc1-is-available.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ben Milman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1565531981620090589.post-7275735231021552065Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:12:00 +00002013-02-07T19:12:19.919+01:00Joshua Parker Ruehlig's FreeNAS plugins<p>The FreeNAS team would like to highlight the efforts of Joshua Parker Ruehlig from the FreeNAS Forums who, in the true spirit of open source, recently published several new plugins for FreeNAS.</p><p>Joshua had already been using sickbeard and Sabnzbd on a windows-based NAS. When he found out about the plugin system in FreeNAS, Joshua started to experiment.</p><p><strong>Since then, here’s a list of all the plugins he has developed:</strong></p><ul><li>headphones - music downloading for sabnzdb</li><li>gamez - video game downloading for sabnzbd</li><li>lazylibrarian - automated ebook downloading</li><li>sabnzbd - usenet automation</li><li>sickbeard - internet personal video recorder</li><li>maraschino - frontend for XBMC</li><li>couchpotato - media search automation</li></ul><p>The plugins that Joshua created can be found at <a href="http://freenas.synergames.com//browse.php?action=browse&userid=7&folder=amd64">http://freenas.synergames.com//browse.php?action=browse&userid=7&folder=amd64</a>.</p><p>For release information, please refer to the notes here: <a href="http://forums.freenas.org/showthread.php?10685-Release-Thread-SAB-SB-CP-HP-Maraschino-LL-Gamez">[Release Thread] SAB / SB / CP / HP / Maraschino / LL / Gamez</a></p><p>Support information is available here: <a href="http://forums.freenas.org/showthread.php?10686-Support-Thread-SAB-SB-CP-HP-Maraschino-LL-Gamez">[Support Thread] SAB / SB / CP / HP / Maraschino / LL / Gamez</a></p> <p>We’d like to thank Joshua again for contributing plugins to the FreeNAS project. FreeNAS would be nothing without the support of its wonderful community. If you’d like to make your own plugins, why not check out the <a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fdoc.freenas.org%2Findex.php%2FPlugins%23Creating_your_own_FreeNAS.C2.AE_PBIs&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNENkS4ATWp7Kyh3dML2UmSgGyNngQ" title="Creating your own FreeNAS PBIs">official documentation</a>? We’d love to hear about your progress on the <a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fforums.freenas.org%2Fforumdisplay.php%3F34-Plugins&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFEPK__uEhu96b2fFyUXKCZ1AYbjw" title="FreeNAS Plugins">Plugins forum</a>.</p>http://blog.freenas.org/2013/02/joshua-parker-ruehligs-freenas-plugins.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ben Milman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1565531981620090589.post-3632767021388560478Wed, 06 Feb 2013 20:01:00 +00002013-02-06T21:01:09.431+01:00FreeNAS 8.3.1-BETA3 is Available<p>The FreeNAS development team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeNAS 8.3.1-BETA3. This is the last planned public beta of 8.3.1 as it moves towards the final.</p> <p>FreeNAS 8.3.1-BETA3 can be downloaded from the following location:</p> <p><a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.3.1/BETA3/" title="FreeNAS-8.3.1-BETA3">https://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.3.1/BETA3/</a></p> <p>FreeNAS 8.3.1 adds ZFS volume encryption to the features available in FreeNAS 8.3.0. BETA3 has a number of bug fixes and feature requests based on community feedback and testing of the first two beta releases, as well as feedback and bug fixes from FreeNAS 8.3.0-RELEASE-p1.</p> <p>There are no further betas planned as FreeNAS 8.3.1 marches towards the final release. At this point there will be no additional features added to 8.3.1.</p> <p>Virtio drivers have been added to the image. For this BETA they default to off, which makes them a bit difficult to use.</p>http://blog.freenas.org/2013/02/freenas-831-beta3-is-available.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ben Milman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1565531981620090589.post-4160751120047192815Sun, 13 Jan 2013 17:21:00 +00002013-01-13T18:22:24.919+01:00FreeNAS 8.3.1-BETA2 is AvailableJosh has announced the availability of the <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.3.1/BETA2/">FreeNAS 8.3.1-BETA2 images </a>to Sourceforge:<br /><br />Things went fairly well in the first beta and I'm shooting for 8.3.1-R by the end of the month, so here's another BETA to give things a spin. At this point things are looking to be in good shape, I'm calling this a BETA because I'm very conservative, and because encryption can go wrong in such grand fashion. I'd rather this image wasn't used for critical or production use. Make sure to have backups!<br /><br />That being said we have no reports of anyone losing data because of bugs in the encryption code, nor have we had any issues with it in our internal testing. (4 months give or take). If you find any bugs in this BETA, please report them to <a href="http://support.freenas.org/">support.freenas.org</a>.<br /><br /><b>Enhancements</b><br /><ol><li>Add a feature to initialize disks with random data.</li><li>Add the iconv option to rsync.</li></ol><b>Bugfixes</b><br /><ol><li>Fix a bug that was preventing multiple destination address for SMART from working.</li><li>Create an empty /var/db/pkg to silence warnings from the SNMP service.</li><li>Fix a bug that was preventing the default scrubs from running. ZFS scrubs are very I/O intensive, and this update will fix many instances where the default monthly scrub wasn't running. It's recommended to check the scrub schedule and be aware of it's impact on FreeNAS.</li><li>Disable the ZFS encryption option when extending a volume. The system will automatically match the encryption state of the existing pool.</li><li>Commit changes to ataidle immediately rather than requiring a reboot.</li><li>Fix a bug that prevented creation of RAIDZ volumes.</li><li>Fix a bug that prevented stopping the CIFS service. </li></ol><br />http://blog.freenas.org/2013/01/freenas-831-beta2-is-available.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dru Lavigne)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1565531981620090589.post-3268729909852607858Fri, 28 Dec 2012 18:44:00 +00002012-12-28T19:44:26.474+01:00FreeNAS 8.3.1 Beta 1 is Available<p>The images for FreeNAS 8.3.1-BETA1 are available on sourceforge.</p> <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.3.1/BETA1/" target="_blank" title="FreeNAS 8.3.1 Beta 1">http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.3.1/BETA1/</a> <p>This is a BETA! I am very emphatic about this because this is the first image available with ZFS volume encryption. Up to this point we've been pretty good about preserving ZFS volumes, not matter what happens to the OS or configuration.</p> <p>With this image all bets are off. When encryption goes wrong it usually takes your data with it.</p> <p>This image is a BETA, it is not suitable for production use, it is not suitable to put data on that you care about even if you are NOT using the encryption functions.</p> <p>There's no way to migrate an unencrypted volume to encrypted or vice-versa.</p> <p>If your processor supports the AES-NI instruction set you should see very little if any degradation in performance when using encryption.</p> <p>Aside from the encryption, the iscsi target was updated, so target reloading needs testing, and samba was updated, so shadow copies needs testing.</p> <p>See the release notes for a complete list of changes.</p> <p>The docs and screenshots for this should be updated by next week.</p>http://blog.freenas.org/2012/12/freenas-831-beta-1-is-available.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ben Milman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1565531981620090589.post-6916897153643781916Mon, 17 Dec 2012 00:54:00 +00002012-12-17T01:54:07.459+01:00FreeNAS 8.3.0-RELEASE-p1 Available The FreeNAS development team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of FreeNAS 8.3.0-RELEASE-p1. Images and plugins can be downloaded from <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.3.0/RELEASE-p1/">here</a>.<br /><br />FreeNAS 8.3.0-RELEASE-p1 is a bugfix release for FreeNAS 8.3.0-RELEASE.&nbsp; The main bug it addresses is the display of a "Welcome to nginx" page instead of the WebUI which occurs sporadically in some situations. If you are running 8.3.0-RELEASE and haven't encountered this bug there may be very little reason to upgrade.<br /> <br />There have been no major changes between 8.3.0-RELEASE and RELEASE-p1, mostly bugfixes and minor usability improvements to the GUI. See the <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.3.0/RELEASE-p1/README/download">release notes</a> for a complete list. <br />http://blog.freenas.org/2012/12/freenas-830-release-p1-available.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dru Lavigne)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1565531981620090589.post-3456030271490677653Wed, 05 Dec 2012 15:41:00 +00002012-12-05T16:41:28.558+01:00FreeNAS at LISAThere will be a FreeBSD booth in the exhibition area of <a data-mce-href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa12" href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa12">LISA</a>, to be held at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina in San Diego, CA. Exhibition hours are Wednesday, December 12 from 12:00–19:00 p.m and Thursday, December 13 from 9:30–14:00. <a data-mce-href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa12/registration-information" href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa12/registration-information">Registration</a> is required for this event, but is free for the exhibition area.<br /><br />We'll be giving out copies of FreeNAS and PC-BSD as well as some cool swag. There will also be an iXsystems booth with some cool hardware running FreeNAS/TrueNAS.<br /><br />If you are in the San Diego area, drop by and say hi!http://blog.freenas.org/2012/12/freenas-at-lisa.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dru Lavigne)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1565531981620090589.post-5801562836701972507Wed, 31 Oct 2012 22:25:00 +00002012-10-31T23:25:43.424+01:00FreeNAS 8.3.0 Users GuideThe 8.3.0 Users Guide is available for download in the following formats:<br /><ul><li>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="http://www.freenas.org/images/resources/freenas8.3.0/freenas8.3_guide.epub">EPUB</a> </li><li>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="http://www.freenas.org/images/resources/freenas8.3.0/freenas8.3_guide.html">HTML</a> </li><li>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="http://freenas.org/images/resources/freenas8.3.0/freenas8.3_guide.pdf">PDF</a> </li></ul>For those who would like to assist the project financially, a Kindle version is also available for purchase from Amazon. The ASIN is B009Z245ZU and this version is text-to-speech enabled. If you are outside of North America, check the Amazon website for your region.http://blog.freenas.org/2012/10/freenas-830-users-guide.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dru Lavigne)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1565531981620090589.post-7470971721338536479Mon, 29 Oct 2012 17:27:00 +00002012-10-29T18:27:56.439+01:00FreeNAS at MeetBSD California<a href="https://www.meetbsd.com/">MeetBSD California</a> takes place this upcoming weekend, November 3-4 at Yahoo! in Santa Clara, CA. Josh Paetzel will be presenting "FreeNAS™: Storage for Open Source" on November 3 and several members of the FreeNAS team will also be attending the conference.<br /><br />This event requires <a href="https://www.meetbsd.com/registration">registration</a> ($75USD).http://blog.freenas.org/2012/10/freenas-at-meetbsd-california.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dru Lavigne)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1565531981620090589.post-9076431010224993139Fri, 26 Oct 2012 17:04:00 +00002012-10-26T19:04:57.556+02:00FreeNAS 8.3.0 is Released!<p>The FreeNAS development team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of FreeNAS 8.3.0-RELEASE.</p> <p>Images and plugins can be downloaded from the following site: <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.3.0/RELEASE/" target="_blank" title="FreeNAS 8.3.0-RELEASE">http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.3.0/RELEASE/</a></p> <p>FreeNAS 8.3.0 is based on FreeBSD 8.3 with version 28 of the ZFS filesystem. This is a major milestone in FreeNAS development, bringing in the plugin system with ZFS version 28. Development of the FreeNAS 8.2 branch has come to a halt, as both ZFS version 15 as well as FreeBSD 8.2 are no longer supported.</p> <p>There have been no major changes between 8.3.0-RC1 and RELEASE, mostly bugfixes and minor usability improvements to the GUI. See the release notes for a complete list: <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.3.0/RC1/README/download" title="FreeNAS 8.3.0 Release Notes" target="_blank">http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.3.0/RC1/README/download</a></p> The bug tracker for FreeNAS is available at <a href="http://support.freenas.org" target="_blank" title="FreeNAS Bug Tracker">http://support.freenas.org</a></p> <p>Discussion about FreeNAS occurs in the FreeNAS forums, located at: <a href="http://forums.freenas.org" target="_blank" title="FreeNAS Forums">http://forums.freenas.org</a> as well as in the official FreeNAS IRC channel on FreeNode in #freenas.</p>http://blog.freenas.org/2012/10/freenas-830-is-released.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ben Milman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1565531981620090589.post-94974256138748113Fri, 12 Oct 2012 22:36:00 +00002012-10-13T00:36:15.835+02:00FreeNAS 8.3.0-RC1 is available<p>The FreeNAS development team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of FreeNAS 8.3.0-RC1.<p> <p>Images and plugins can be downloaded from the following site: <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.3.0/RC1/" target="_blank" title="FreeNAS 8.3.0 RC1">http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.3.0/RC1/</a></p> <p>This is the first and only release candidate planned for the final version of FreeNAS 8.3.0-RELEASE.</p> <p>FreeNAS 8.3.0 is based on FreeBSD 8.3 with version 28 of the ZFS filesystem.</p> <p>There have been no major changes between 8.3.0-BETA3 and RC1, mostly bugfixes and minor usability improvements to the GUI. See the release notes for a complete list: <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.3.0/RC1/README/download" target="_blank" title="FreeNAS 8.3.0 RC1 Release Notes">http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.3.0/RC1/README/download</a></p>http://blog.freenas.org/2012/10/freenas-830-rc1-is-available.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ben Milman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1565531981620090589.post-1449881470008071924Tue, 09 Oct 2012 13:52:00 +00002012-10-24T16:39:22.246+02:00FreeNAS at FSOSSThere will be a presentation "Introduction to FreeNAS 8.3" at <a href="http://fsoss.senecac.on.ca/2012/">FSOSS</a> to be held in Toronto, Canada on Friday, October 26. The link to the presentation will be made available at <a href="http://www.bsdevents.org/presentations/">bsdevents.org</a>.<br /><br />In addition, each attendee will receive a FreeNAS CD in their registration pack. <a href="https://matrix.senecac.on.ca:8443/fsoss/fsoss/register2012.php">Registration</a> is required for this event.<br /><br />The presentation slides are available <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/dlavigne/fsoss12">here</a>. http://blog.freenas.org/2012/10/freenas-at-fsoss.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dru Lavigne)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1565531981620090589.post-1937905472861743867Tue, 09 Oct 2012 13:37:00 +00002012-10-09T21:56:50.164+02:00FreeNAS at EuroBSDConSeveral members of the FreeNAS team will be at <a data-mce-href="http://2012.eurobsdcon.org" href="http://2012.eurobsdcon.org/">EuroBSDCon</a> to be held in Warsaw, Poland on October 18-21. There will be a booth in the expo area which will hand out FreeNAS 8.3.0-BETA2 CDs as well as cool swag.<br /><br />Dru Lavigne will give a half-day workshop "Introduction to FreeNAS 8.3" on Thursday, October 18 beginning at 10:00.<br /><br />John Hixson will present "FreeNAS System Architecture" at 12:10 on Saturday, October 20.<br /><br />FreeNAS users may also be interested in&nbsp; Martin Matuska's presentation "Tuning ZFS on FreeBSD" at 10:55 on Sunday, October 21.<br /><br /><a data-mce-href="http://2012.eurobsdcon.org/register/price-overview/" href="http://2012.eurobsdcon.org/register/price-overview/">Registration</a> is required for this event.http://blog.freenas.org/2012/10/freenas-at-eurobsdcon.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dru Lavigne)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1565531981620090589.post-3802634728857529270Fri, 05 Oct 2012 12:53:00 +00002012-10-05T14:53:53.539+02:00New Video on Configuring PluginsAnother instructional <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp_pW-8Laro">video</a> has been uploaded to Youtube. This video demonstrates how to configure the Transmission, Firefly, and MiniDLNA plugins on FreeNAS 8.3.0-BETA2 to work together as a streaming media platform.http://blog.freenas.org/2012/10/new-video-on-configuring-plugins.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dru Lavigne)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1565531981620090589.post-2854113829903340194Wed, 26 Sep 2012 21:35:00 +00002012-09-26T23:36:03.981+02:00FreeNAS 8.3.0-BETA3 is AvailableThe FreeNAS development team is pleased to announce the availability of FreeNAS 8.3.0-BETA3. This is the last planned public beta of 8.3.0 as it moves towards the final.<br /><br />FreeNAS 8.3.0-BETA3 can be downloaded from the following location:<br /><a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.3.0/BETA3/" target="_blank" title="FreeNAS 8.0.3 Beta 3">https://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.3.0/BETA3/</a> <br /><br />This BETA includes a refactoring of the Active Directory and LDAP integration. It has a rework of serial port support, adding the ability to set the serial port speed. The NFS sharing was refactored in BETA2 with an eye towards maintaining compatability with sharing schemes set up in previous FreeNAS releases. The refactored sharing is more powerful and flexible than previous releases, while enforcing the OS based rules. Support for the LSI "skinny" RAID controllers was added, including the 9265/9285.<br /><br />Upgrading an existing ZFS pool is a one way street, once the upgrade is done it is not possible to use older versions of FreeNAS, nor is it possible to downgrade your pool. This upgrade can be done by running zpool upgrade from the CLI, it is not done automatically via the upgrader, nor is there a way to do the upgrade from the GUI.http://blog.freenas.org/2012/09/freenas-830-beta3-is-available.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ben Milman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1565531981620090589.post-5166930287056074869Thu, 06 Sep 2012 19:58:00 +00002012-09-06T21:58:48.666+02:00 FreeNAS 8.3.0-BETA2 is now available 8.3.0-BETA2 is now available for <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.3.0/BETA2/">download</a> and testing. Some of the changes for this upcoming release include:<br /><ul><li> ZFSv28 adds deduplication, RAIDZ3, improved snapshot support, and a removable log device. </li></ul><ul><li> Based on FreeBSD 8.3 which updated and added some new drivers as described in the <a class="external text" href="http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.3R/relnotes-detailed.html#NEW" rel="nofollow">FreeBSD 8.3 Release Notes</a>. </li></ul><ul><li> Reporting graphs now provide buttons for navigating to different points in time. </li></ul><ul><li> Automatic redirect from http:// to https:// when accessing the administrative GUI when <a href="http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/Settings#General_Tab" title="Settings">SSL is enabled</a>. </li></ul><ul><li> Add support for HighPoint 27xx cards. </li></ul><ul><li> Add the <a class="external text" href="http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/carp.html" rel="nofollow">CARP</a> module to the build. The CARP module is not loaded by default and high availability must be configured manually from the command line. More information about CARP can be found in the <a class="external text" href="http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html#CARP" rel="nofollow">OpenBSD FAQ</a>. </li></ul><ul><li> Add a begin and end time for <a href="http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/Replication_Tasks" title="Replication Tasks">Replication Tasks</a>. </li></ul><ul><li> Add the ability to specify the SSL certificate and private key to be used for encrypting <a href="http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/FTP" title="FTP">FTP</a> connections. </li></ul><ul><li> Add a memory device as an option when performing a <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/Upgrading_FreeNAS#From_the_GUI" title="Upgrading FreeNAS">GUI upgrade</a>. </li></ul><ul><li> In <a href="http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/Active_Directory" title="Active Directory">Active Directory</a> configuration, add checkboxes for: Use default domain, UNIX extensions, and Verbose logging. </li></ul><ul><li> Add additional <a href="http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/SNMP" title="SNMP">SNMP</a> MIBs. </li></ul><ul><li> Add the ability to update the <a href="http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/Plugins" title="Plugins">Plugins</a> Jail without deleting installed plugins. </li></ul><ul><li> Disable <a class="external text" href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc896" rel="nofollow">Nagle's algorithm</a> in order to provide better LAN network performance at the expense of WAN performance. </li></ul><ul><li> Add <a class="external text" href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=aesni" rel="nofollow">AES-NI</a> hardware support for the Intel Core i5/i7 processors that support this encryption set. This support speeds up AES encryption and decryption. </li></ul><ul><li> A host name database field has been added to <a href="http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/Global_Configuration" title="Global Configuration">Global Configuration</a>, allowing entries to be added to <i>/etc/hosts.</i></li></ul>A complete list of changes is available in the Release Notes on the download page.<br /><br />The <a href="http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/Main_Page">documentation</a> on the wiki is mostly up-to-date for 8.3.0 and will improve over the next few days.<br /><br />Beta testers should <a href="http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/Submit_Bug_Reports">report any bugs</a> so that they can be fixed in time for release.http://blog.freenas.org/2012/09/freenas-830-beta2-is-now-available.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dru Lavigne)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1565531981620090589.post-6528659853376915267Fri, 10 Aug 2012 00:03:00 +00002012-08-10T02:05:35.363+02:00FreeNAS 8.3.0-BETA1 is Now Available<div class="postrow"><br />The FreeNAS development team is pleased to announce the availability of <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.3.0/BETA1/">FreeNAS 8.3.0-BETA1</a>. This is the first public release of the 8.3.0 branch of FreeNAS, which upgrades the underlying base system&nbsp;of FreeNAS to FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p7. This update brings with it&nbsp;Version 28 of the ZFS filesystem, as well as a number of updates to the drivers and utilities in the base system.</div><div class="postrow"><br />FreeNAS 8.2.0 brought with it the ability to install plugins; this&nbsp;functionality is present in FreeNAS 8.3.0 as well. At the moment, upgrading the plugin jail to the version included with FreeNAS 8.3.0-BETA1 will cause&nbsp;plugins to stop working and will require reinstallation and reconfiguration&nbsp;of all plugins to resume normal operation. Our recommendation at this time is to avoid upgrading working components of the plugin system.</div><div class="postrow"><br />ZFS Version 28 includes several features such as the ability to detach a dedicated ZIL device, triple parity RAIDZ, and deduplication. There are&nbsp;numerous caveats to using deduplication, please do some research into the&nbsp;possible caveats of using dedup before enabling it. </div><div class="postrow"><br />Upgrading an existing ZFS pool is a one way street, once the upgrade is&nbsp;done it is not possible to use older versions of FreeNAS, nor is it possible to downgrade your pool. This upgrade can be done by running zpool upgrade from the CLI, it is not done automatically via the upgrader, nor is there a&nbsp;way to do the upgrade from the GUI. Instructions can be found in <a href="http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/Upgrading_FreeNAS#Upgrading_a_ZFS_Pool">this section</a> of the upcoming 8.3 Users Guide.<br /><br /></div>http://blog.freenas.org/2012/08/freenas-830-beta1-is-now-available.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dru Lavigne)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1565531981620090589.post-7236054295328510077Thu, 26 Jul 2012 18:02:00 +00002012-07-26T20:02:44.110+02:00FreeNAS at Texas LinuxFestWe'll be giving out FreeNAS 8.2-RELEASE CDs, brochures, and cool swag at the FreeBSD booth during <a href="http://2012.texaslinuxfest.org/">Texas LinuxFest</a>. The booth is #37 in the Red Oak Ballroom of the Norris Conference Center in San Antonio. The expo is open on Saturday, August 4 from 10–6. <a href="https://register.texaslinuxfest.org/reg6/">Registration</a> is required for this event and costs $20 or $50.<br /><br />Dru Lavigne will give a presentation on FreeNAS <span class="numbers">8</span>.<span class="numbers">3</span> at&nbsp;<span class="numbers">11</span>:<span class="numbers">20</span>.http://blog.freenas.org/2012/07/freenas-at-texas-linuxfest.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dru Lavigne)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1565531981620090589.post-2887638598655568049Fri, 20 Jul 2012 17:26:00 +00002012-07-20T21:10:41.283+02:00FreeNAS 8.2 Released!The FreeNAS development team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of FreeNAS 8.2.0-RELEASE.<br /><br />FreeNAS 8.2.0-RELEASE is the first release on new branch of code that incorporates tighter integration between the ZFS command line and the FreeNAS GUI. This release also features the ability to run arbitrary services and interact with them through the FreeNAS GUI in a FreeBSD jail. This jail allows a wide range of third party software to be run on top of FreeNAS, using the PBI format from PC-BSD or FreeBSD packages or ports, as well as official FreeNAS plugins.<br /><br />Additional features include:<br /> <ul><li>Support for iSCSI target reload.</li><li>GUI support for SAS and FC multipath hardware.</li><li>Webshell accessible from the FreeNAS web interface.</li><li>ZFS scrubs are configurable from the GUI.</li><li>A newer web toolkit is used in the GUI, enabling use of mobile browsers.</li><li>An autotuning script tunes ZFS for the hardware it's running on.</li></ul><h3>Getting FreeNAS:</h3> <h4>For 64 bit capable hardware</h4>The FreeNAS images are at: <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.2.0/RELEASE/x64/" title="FreeNAS 8.2 RELEASE 64-bit images">https://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.2.0/RELEASE/x64/</a><br />The plugins and plugin jail are available at: <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.2.0/RELEASE/x64/plugins" title="FreeNAS 8.2 RELEASE 64-bit plugins">https://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.2.0/RELEASE/x64/plugins</a><br /><h4>For 32 bit hardware</h4>The FreeNAS images are at: <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.2.0/RELEASE/x86/" title="FreeNAS 8.2 RELEASE 32-bit">https://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.2.0/RELEASE/x86/</a><br />The plugins and plugin jail are available at: <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.2.0/RELEASE/x86/plugins" title="FreeNAS 8.2 RELEASE 32-bit plugins">https://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.2.0/RELEASE/x86/plugins</a><br /><h4>Documentation:</h4><a href="http://doc.freenas.org/" title="FreeNAS Documentation">http://doc.freenas.org</a> has been updated with the finished 8.2.0 documentation, A PDF/HTML version will be available Tuesday July 24th.<br /><h4>Release Notes:</h4><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.2.0/RELEASE/README/download" title="FreeNAS 8.2 RELEASE Release Notes">http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.2.0/RELEASE/README/download</a><h4>Press Release</h4><a href="http://www.ixsystems.com/resources/ix/freenas-news/ixsystems-announces-release-of-freenas-82.html" title="FreeNAS 8.2 Press Release iXsystems.com">iXsystems.com</a>http://blog.freenas.org/2012/07/freenas-82-released.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ben Milman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1565531981620090589.post-7632650381296195205Fri, 13 Jul 2012 19:22:00 +00002012-07-13T21:23:59.421+02:00FreeNAS 8.2.0-RC1 AvailableThe development team is pleased to announce the availability of <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.2.0/RC1/">FreeNAS 8.2.0-RC1</a>. Be sure to read the Release Notes in the download directory for your architecture, especially if you are upgrading from a previous version.<br /><br />Barring any major bugs in this release candidate, RELEASE should be just around the corner. If you find any bugs, be sure to <a href="http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/Submit_Bug_Reports">report them</a> so that they can be fixed in time for RELEASE. 8.3 is expected to be released shortly after 8.2-RELEASE, bringing along all of the ZFS v28 goodness. So it looks like July will be a busy month for FreeNAS users.<br /><br />The <a href="http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/Main_Page">docs</a> are mostly up-to-date with RC1 and will improve next week, especially the section on Plugins. We're aiming to publish the 8.2 Users Guide a day or so after 8.2 is released.http://blog.freenas.org/2012/07/freenas-820-rc1-available.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dru Lavigne)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1565531981620090589.post-6677521876722644852Fri, 15 Jun 2012 16:26:00 +00002012-06-15T18:27:51.433+02:00FreeNAS 8.2.0-BETA4 AvailableIt's been nearly a month between betas and there have been several hundred commits in between. The development team is pleased to announce that FreeNAS 8.2.0-BETA4 is available for immediate <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.2.0/BETA4/">download</a>. <br /><br />There has been a complete refactoring of the plugin networking stack, to allow greater flexibility and functionality. We've added the ability to upgrade plugins, as well as the plugin jail itself. There have been numerous bug fixes and improvements over previous beta releases.<br /><br />The <a href="http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/Plugins">documentation for plugins</a> is mostly caught up for BETA4 and will improve over the next week or so. <br /><br /><b>IMPORTANT: </b><br /><br />The GUI upgrade format changed in 8.2.0-BETA3 from xz to txz. If you are attempting to do a GUI upgrade to 8.2.0-BETA4 from 8.2.0-BETA3, use the .txz version of the GUI_Upgrade<br />file. If you are upgrading from any other previous version, use the .xz file.<br /><br />If you find a bug, please create a support ticket using these <a href="http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/Submit_Bug_Reports">instructions</a>. <br /><br />http://blog.freenas.org/2012/06/freenas-820-beta4-available.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dru Lavigne)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1565531981620090589.post-6981543485593655193Thu, 14 Jun 2012 13:02:00 +00002012-06-14T15:02:43.031+02:00Upgrade to 8.0.4-p3All FreeNAS 8.0.x users are encouraged to upgrade to 8.0.4-p3 which was released yesterday. This release update addresses this <a href="http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-12:04.sysret.asc">critical privilege escalation vulnerability</a>.<br /><br />8.0.4-p3 install and upgrade images are available from the <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-8.0.4/">8.0.4 SourceForge page</a>. Instructions for upgrading are in the <a href="http://doc.freenas.org/index.php/Upgrading_FreeNAS">FreeNAS Users Guide</a>.http://blog.freenas.org/2012/06/upgrade-to-804-p3.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Dru Lavigne)0